Girl names 18
- Blanche
"White"
- Brie
The soft white cheese
- Cait
After the Cait Sith, a black fairy cat with a white chest
- Dove
Gentle bird of peace
- Fawn
A pale young deer
- Fern
Soft green frond
- Frigg
Queen of Asgard
- Gwen
"White, fair, blessed"
- Ivy
A climbing vine, for climbers
- Jade
The green stone
- Jinx
A charm, or a streak of bad luck
- Maat
Goddess of truth and cosmic order
- Maeve
The warrior queen of Connacht
- Niamh
"Bright, radiant"
- Nut
Goddess of the night sky
- Nyx
Goddess of the night
- Pearl
The lustrous gem from the sea
- Wren
Tiny brown songbird
Boy names 40
- Banff
The Rockies town, named after Banffshire
- Binx
The talking black cat of Hocus Pocus
- Bjorn
"Bear"
- Blanc
"White"
- Blaze
A bright flame
- Bond
Always in a dinner jacket
- Bran
"Raven"
- Coal
Black with a hidden glow
- Duke
A noble title
- Fionn
"Fair, white"; the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill
- Flint
Hard grey stone that sparks
- Flynn
"Son of the red-haired one"
- Fox
Russet and quick
- Frost
Sharp, pale and sparkling
- Goose
The ginger cat in Captain Marvel
- Gus
Short for Augustus, "venerable"
- Hades
Ruler of the underworld
- Hobbes
The tiger of Calvin and Hobbes
- Jazz
Cool, black and white
- Jeeves
Wodehouse's unflappable valet
- Leif
"Heir"
- Leo
"Lion"
- Moose
Large, Canadian and gentle
- Poe
After Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote "The Black Cat"
- Puck
Shakespeare's mischievous sprite
- Puss
Puss in Boots, the clever fairy-tale cat
- Quartz
Clear, common and tough
- Ra
Egyptian god of the sun
- Rex
"King"
- Ritz
After the grand hotels of César Ritz
- Set
God of storms, deserts and chaos
- Slate
Blue-grey stone
- Steve
Stephen means "crown"; on a cat it means comedy
- Tadhg
"Poet"
- Thor
God of thunder
- Thoth
Ibis-headed god of writing and wisdom
- Tut
After the boy king Tutankhamun
- Tux
Dressed for dinner
- Wolf
Grey and wild at heart
- Zeus
King of the Greek gods
Unisex names 48
- Aki
"Autumn"
- Ash
Soft grey
- Bao
A steamed bun
- Bean
Small and beloved
- Bleu
"Blue"
- Blu
"Blue"
- Bun
Small and round
- Chai
"Tea"
- Chonk
For the generously built
- Cloud
Soft and drifting
- Crow
A clever black bird
- Dune
Sandy and windswept
- Fudge
Soft brown candy
- Ghost
Pale and silent-pawed
- Gin
"Silver"
- Gris
"Grey"
- Hex
"Witch"; a spell or curse
- Ink
Small, dark and memorable
- Jet
Glossy black gem made from fossilized wood
- Kin
"Gold"
- Lynx
The tufted wild cat
- Mau
Ancient Egyptian for "cat"
- Ming
"Bright"; a Chinese dynasty
- Mink
Soft brown fur
- Moss
Soft and quiet
- Moth
Soft and dusty
- Noir
"Black"
- Ochre
Yellow-orange earth pigment
- Pip
A small seed with a big presence
- Quilt
Patchwork you can nap on
- Rune
"Secret"; a letter of the old Norse alphabet
- Sage
The herb of wisdom
- Scone
A crumbly tea-time bake
- Skunk
Black and white, with attitude
- Smudge
For dark-tipped ears and nose
- Snow
Simple and clean
- Socks
For white feet
- Sol
"Sun"
- Sphinx
Lion-bodied keeper of riddles
- Spud
A potato, affectionately
- Storm
Dramatic and grey
- Stripes
Says what it sees
- Swirl
For the classic blotched tabby
- Thyme
The herb; ask what thyme it is
- Toast
Golden brown
- Toque
The Canadian winter hat
- Yang
The light half of yin and yang
- Yin
The dark half of yin and yang